#acquiring

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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.


Kevin Bacon


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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.


Walter Benjamin


#because #books #buy #could #dissatisfied

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.


Paul Biya


#culture #democracy #famous #objective #our

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.


Emile M. Cioran


#despair #exist #habit #i #i do

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.


William Falconer


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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.


Albert Camus


#before #body #daily #death #get

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.


Alexis Carrel


#broadest #broadest sense #comprehending #instrument #knowledge

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.


Charles Caleb Colton


#acquisition #best #books #friends #good

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.


David Hume


#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.


Mordecai Wyatt Johnson


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